Maggers Wrote:I had no idea they were speaking Chinese! I just thought it was their native language from the far off future of a country I don't know. Cool!
How about this line, from Jayne explaining how the lone survivor of the derelict ship got him in "Bushwacked:"
"He looked bigger when I couldn't see him."
Ha! Loved that!
Maggers Wrote:I had no idea they were speaking Chinese! I just thought it was their native language from the far off future of a country I don't know. Cool!
Ken Valentine Wrote:http://www.browncoats.com/main.php?paren...46fb171d22
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Ken Valentine Wrote:Glad to hear it! In my view, it starts out great, and gets greater, greaterer, and more greaterer yet.Our Mrs Reynolds was probably my favorite episode. Ya know, I just realized that I never got disc 4 and finished watching the series. I'll get on that. It must have escaped me during the holidays.
Some of the lines are s-o-o-o funny . . . and pithy!
From Serenity -- episode one:
Mal: "I don't want you to hurt him . . . just scare him a little."
Jayne: "Pain is scary."
From Bushwhacked -- episode three:
Alliance interrogator: "And you fought with Captain Reynolds in the war?"
Zoe: "Fought with a lot of people in the war . . . "
Alliance interrogator: "And your husband?"
Zoe: "Fight with him sometimes too."
Mal to interrogator: "May have been the losing side . . . still not convinced it was the wrong one."
I thought Christine Hendricks did a very good bit of acting in her guest roles in the episodes, "Our Mrs. Reynolds," and "Trash" -- which you have yet to see.
For translations of the Chinese used in the series, see:
http://www.browncoats.com/main.php?paren...46fb171d22
Ken V.
jimbow8 Wrote:Our Mrs Reynolds was probably my favorite episode. Ya know, I just realized that I never got disc 4 and finished watching the series. I'll get on that. It must have escaped me during the holidays.
I think that they mentioned that they were speaking Chinese at some point in the series, which makes sense given the population.
jimbow8 Wrote:Our Mrs Reynolds was probably my favorite episode. Ya know, I just realized that I never got disc 4 and finished watching the series. I'll get on that. It must have escaped me during the holidays.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Population?
The "Alliance" was supposedly between the U.S. and China. They came together in order to dominate the galaxy, or the 'Verse as it's called in the show. So everybody speaks both English and Chinese.
Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:Population?I didn't know anything about the Anglo-Sino Alliance. Do they mention that in the show or is it part of Whedon's background story? They never really got into what the Alliance was or why it was so bad (at least that I remember), other than they are just the government (sort of like the Empire in Star Wars).
The "Alliance" was supposedly between the U.S. and China. They came together in order to dominate the galaxy, or the 'Verse as it's called in the show. So everybody speaks both English and Chinese.
Ken V.